“If paintings are so important - worth so much, reproduced, cherished, and visited so often - then isn't it troubling that we can hardly make emotional contact with the artists? Few centuries, it seems, are as determinedly tearless as ours.” IfsImportantSeemsArtistCenturyEmotionalPaintingImportanceContact Author:James Elkins
“I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes. I see no reason for painting but that. If I have anything to offer, it is my emotional contact with the place where I live and the people I do.” PeopleIfsThinkingArtReasonEmotionalPaintingOffersContactNo Reason Author:Andrew Wyeth